Event
- Event ID
- 829
- Quality
- Description
- A fire occurred on a flange of a hydro-desulphurisation unit during start-up operations. A failure of this flange caused of the leak.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Flange
- How was it involved?
- Leak & Formation Of A Flammable H2-Air Mixture
- Initiating cause
- Material Degradation (Generic)
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Petrochemical Industry
- Sub-application
- Hydrodesulphurisation process
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- a valve of a hydrodesulfurization unit
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- The incident occurred at the start up of the unit
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 11662
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
